How to Discover Source of Hot Skin
My trailer is parked under a metal carport on a dirt pad covered with rock. It has been raining and the ground under the rock is damp or wet, depending on where you are under the carport. Last evenin...
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Damp human skin. Twelve volts direct current "burns" inside forearm. Try it with your car battery terminal posts sometime.You need to establish the value, the voltage doing this and then establish whether it is AC or DC. Measure voltage both ways. Remember wet earth may or may not be the ultimate potential, so connect one probe to household neutral then touch the RV chassis. This would be the "actual" potential.
If A.C. (which is 99.999% likely. Switch and test individually breaker by breaker which circuit is involved. Then within that circuit disconnect appliances one by one then test.
One head scratcher was leakage of L2 to earth. The hot skin was the completion of the fault from earth to RV true neutral/earth bond.
If A.C. (which is 99.999% likely. Switch and test individually breaker by breaker which circuit is involved. Then within that circuit disconnect appliances one by one then test.
One head scratcher was leakage of L2 to earth. The hot skin was the completion of the fault from earth to RV true neutral/earth bond.
